Trump Hire Aims to ‘Burrow in’ as Biden Taps Employment Head (1)

The Biden administration is installing new leaders at a federal workforce agency critical to pandemic economic recovery, while a Trump appointee who held a senior political role in the same office is attempting to stay on board.

Suzi LeVine, the Washington state Employment Security Department commissioner and former Obama-era ambassador to Switzerland, is slated to join the Labor Department on Monday as interim political head of the Employment and Training Administration, according to five sources briefed on the process. She’ll be joined by a new chief of staff, Ana Hageage, who shares LeVine’s Obama administration pedigree, three sources familiar ...